His first novella in English was published in a shared volume Gaza Blues (2004) with Etgar Keret. He is also an essayist with a wide range of interests including literature, politics, philosophy and cultural studies. He writes in both Arabic and English, and some of his work has been translated into German, Italian, Greek and Norwegian. In 2000, he was granted British citizenship. He emigrated to Cyprus in 1989 and since 1990 has been living in London, where he studied philosophy and gained a Master of Arts degree from the University of London. Samir el-Youssef is a Palestinian writer and critic who was born in 1965 in Rashidia, a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon.
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